{"id":17146,"date":"2014-08-04T02:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2014-08-04T02:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:51:24","slug":"bodyboarding-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bodyboarding-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboarding in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/boddy.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians didn&#8217;t actually invent bodyboarding, nor\u00a0have we ever claimed a world champ since the international bodyboarding contest began in 1977. But the sport that uses a shorter board than the surfboard can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/california-bodyboarding.html\">credit California with many contributions <\/a>\u00a0ranging from\u00a0the manufacturing of the\u00a0product\u00a0to the legacy carried on by students and individuals who join teams or compete individually.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Californian Tom &#8220;Y&#8221; Morey \u00a0invented the modern bodyboard in 1971, called the Boogie board.<\/li>\n<li>Though Hawaii ranks among the best bodyboarding destinations, the famed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/newport-beach-wedge.html\">Wedge in Newport Beach<\/a> is a must-see stop on Southern California visits, as well as Lower Trestles (San Clemente).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians didn&#8217;t actually invent bodyboarding, nor\u00a0have we ever claimed a world champ since the international bodyboarding contest began in 1977. But the sport that uses a shorter board than the surfboard can credit California with many contributions \u00a0ranging from\u00a0the manufacturing of the\u00a0product\u00a0to the legacy carried on by students and individuals who join teams or compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}